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Apple Sells Over 300,000 iPads First Day — Apple® today announced that it sold over 300,000 iPads in the US as of midnight Saturday, April 3. These sales included deliveries of pre-ordered iPads to customers, deliveries to channel partners and sales at Apple Retail Stores.
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Brainstorm Tech:
Piper Jaffray survey of iPad buyers: 74% owned Macs; 66% had iPhones — Who were the device's first buyers, and what do they plan to do with it? — Photo: PED — Most of the people who lined up in New York and Minneapolis to purchase the iPad on Saturday were already committed Apple …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Trouble In Paradise: iPad Users Complain Of Wifi Issues — Just one day after launch and there are already scores of complaints on the Apple support site over faulty wifi on the iPad. A typical complaint is that the iPad shows no wifi signal, or a very weak signal, where other devices pick it up just fine:
Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech:
Apple's iPad A4 SoC: Faster than the Nexus One's Snapdragon? — Fresh out the frying pan and into the fire, I just finished my Nexus One review late last night only to have my iPad preorder show up early this afternoon. I had been preparing for it's arrival not by downloading apps …
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Noam Cohen / New York Times:
‘Suicide’ Query Prompts Google to Offer Hotline — As with any omniscient being, you can ask Google anything. You just don't know what the answer is going to be. — That changed slightly last week when the Google search engine started automatically giving a suggestion of where to call …
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Meet the App Store Millionaires: The Brothers Behind Doodle Jump — Developers are eager to use the iPad as a chance to sell more expensive apps. But you can do just fine selling software at 99 cents a pop. Just ask Igor and Marko Pusenjak. — In the last year the two brothers …
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Brainstorm Tech:
The iPad and the failings of the computer industry — Steve Jobs' latest creation drew big crowds; why can't his competitors manage the same magic? And isn't it time for Apple to show who can think big inside besides Jobs? — Can anyone copy Apple's commandments?
Ben Parr / Mashable!:
Google Buzz Privacy Reset Coming Tomorrow — In an effort to address mounting criticism of the privacy issues surrounding Google Buzz, the search giant is going to ask all Buzz users to confirm or change their privacy settings tomorrow. — In an announcement that will be coming soon …
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Alexia Tsotsis / The Snitch:
iPad Has Risen: Steve Jobs Makes Easter Eve Appearance — With around 700,000 units of what was presciently called the Jesus Tablet sold yesterday, it's worth noting that Steve Jobs, wearing a black hoodie and ripped jeans, revealed himself to his flock on Easter Eve at the Palo Alto Apple store …
James Niccolai / PC World:
Microsoft Ending Support for Itanium — Microsoft is ending its support for Intel's Itanium processor with the current version of its Windows Server OS, according to a Microsoft blog posting Friday. — “Windows Server 2008 R2 will be the last version of Windows Server to support …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Source: Elevation Partners Got About 1% Of Facebook For $90 Million — We've been digging deeper on the Elevation Partners investment in Facebook Common Stock. In our original post we had heard that Elevation Partners paid “around $30/share” for the stock in a late 2009 transaction.
Zee / The Next Web:
Finally....A real test for the iPad. Will it blend? — These tests are almost as exciting as the wait for the actual product in my book. Now, for the moment youâve (Iâm sure) all been waiting for. Will it blend?
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
EMG Includes iPad In Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Apple — EMG Technology, a company that previously slapped Apple with a patent infringement lawsuit over the iPhone's browser technology, has announced that it will include the iPad as an additional product in the complaint.
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Nick O'Neill / SocialTimes.com:
Why I'm Returning My Apple iPad ($AAPL) — In the past 48 hours I've gone from boycotting the Apple iPad, to purchasing one, and this morning I'm bringing it back to the store. While I can explain my initial justification for purchasing the device, I should state that I could just as easily justify …
Barry Oneill / Recombu:
App Friday: Android's ‘flea market’ needs urgent attention — This is a guest post from Barry O'Neil (@barryoneill), ex-President of Namco Bandai Network Europe and now founder and CEO of Other Ventures. Before joining Namco Barry co-founded Upstart Games, a privately-held publisher of mobile games …
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Telegraph:
Apple blocks app that warns users of radiation levels — Apple has blocked an app for its iphone that warns users how much radiation they are exposing themselves to while on their phone. — The inexpensive application for the iPhone tells owners when radiation levels have inched up too high …
Digital Arts / Macworld:
Adobe brings Ideas to iPad — Adobe has released its first iPad app for Apple's new device. Adobe Ideas is a free digital sketchbook app that's designed to allow artists to sketch ideas wherever they are, before bringing the results into Photoshop or Illustrator back in the studio.
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Don Clark / Wall Street Journal:
Apple's iPad Taps Familiar Suppliers — A look inside Apple Inc.'s new iPad points to more business for some familiar component suppliers to the Silicon Valley giant. — Firms that specialize in disassembling and analyzing electronic hardware say they also found some new clues …
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
At Snopes, a Quest to Debunk Misinformation Online — It is one of the paradoxes of the Internet. — Along with the freest access to knowledge the world has ever seen comes a staggering amount of untruth, from imagined threats on health care to too-easy-to-be-true ways to earn money by forwarding an e-mail message to 10 friends.
Doc Searls Weblog:
Beyond the iPad — I was just interviewed for a BBC television feature that will run around the same time the iPad is launched. I'll be a talking head, basically. For what it's worth, here's what I provided as background for where I'd be coming from in the interview:
